A Mother's Monologue

Shut Down

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

"Shut Down Now!! Mummy!!" That was T yelling over the last two months for the lack of attention from her mother as her mother glued herself to her faithful Dell. I worked through two whole months without an ounce of quality time for my dearest and I so.......click to learn what next.

Are you an observer or an observee?

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Yes, I made that word up. It doesn't exist - I checked. I've noticed that some people stay in the background and are sensitive to their surroundings. They watch quietly; your bronze polished nails, your tattered bag, your scratched Chanel shoes, how you eat your food with large.......click to learn what next.

Protected: Putting ink to paper….keyboard to screen

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

In researching for my book (which I have been commissioned to write and because I was selected amongst local journalists, is really not a big deal to me), I have been thinking a lot of about writing. Writing styles, the use of language, expressions, thoughts behind a writer.......click to learn what next.

My current favourite dish

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

It's the mackerel teriyaki set at Lake Club. I can eat 3 servings! But I'll bet it raises my sugar levels unhealthily, which explains why I get on a high whenever I order it. Bummer. Thank goodness, I am not pregnant or that would be a no-no dish.

1 of my husband’s 10 developments in Bahrain called Tala on Amwaj Islands

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

These are a block of apartments facing the sea...... Parking lot to a Villa - that also faces the sea...... Houses are really in close proximity as everyone wants to have a villa by the sea & of course, there is only so many miles of beachfront. If.......click to learn what next.

“Yo, Mama! Digg it!”

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

“I’m going to play sand now!”

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

The good, the bad & the downright nasty! (snippets from Bahrain)

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

The good - Weather is not hot The bad - Weather is cold The downright nasty – You can’t feel your fingers The good – The bouncy castle that T loves at the mall is FREE of charge!!! The bad – It costs RM100 for a return taxi.......click to learn what next.

The Kingdom of Bahrain through the eyes of 1 Mom

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

1. The only public form of transport is expensive taxi. A 5 kilometre journey costs RM50. 2. There are no pedestrian pavements and even if there were, I wouldn’t be caught dead walking on them with maniacal drivers on the loose. 3. Apartments are costly and it doesn’t.......click to learn what next.

Resolution #1 – 2007

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

OK - I've thought about it. My first resolution for the year has to be working hard. Working hard enough till I can implement my invention of the T-1703 MUM - every mothers' dream machine. The T-1703 MUM is the latest user friendly device of the milenium that.......click to learn what next.

Tis I bid farewell to 2006….

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

and welcome 2007 with fresh perspective and positive spirit. I had a beautiful family lunch today with my family - My mother (the anchor), the Hubs and T, my younger brother and his girlfriend, my youngest brother and his girlfriend and my mother's god daughter and her boyfriend........click to learn what next.

Blogging as breaks

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

So I was wrong..... It feels like I'll be writing another 10 posts before the year is up. Reason being, it is so much more fun than researching for a bloody coffee table book. So I blog in between as breaks. It is my form of escapism. Why.......click to learn what next.

My new COACH bag – First & Last

Posted on December 30, 2006December 2, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

One of the recent Designer outlets in KLCC is the American COACH brand. Usually a loyal fan of Ferragamo & Chanel, I walked into a COACH store, just out of curiousity and liked the casual American style more fitting for mothers than the high powered corporate world of.......click to learn what next.

Merry, Merry Christmas and a HAPPY, EXCITING, BLESSED NEW YEAR!!!

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

What the hell. This is quite likely the last post I'll do for the year 2006 so bottoms up! Under our Christmas tree this year.... Our Christmas Cake - Santa with Mrs Claus on a superb tropical holiday in Malaysia! The cake was super-duper delicious, no kidding. If.......click to learn what next.

Ammunition for dealing with Government agencies and idiots

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I have it sussed. Ever since I became the secretary for a charity organisation I volunteer with, I've had to make dozens of phone calls to Government agencies in order to keep ourselves legal. It is no picnic but I no longer stress out the way I used.......click to learn what next.

Fish soup shampoo

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I have been getting very little sleep. No, that's nothing new but more so now because I have been commissioned to write a coffee table book for the Government. The routine is, I am working every waking hour as much as is feasibly possible with a toddler, and.......click to learn what next.

Guilty Mother

Posted on December 29, 2006December 6, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

If there were ever some powerful emotions that set forth in a woman on the onset of Motherhood, it is surely love, patience and guilt - in that order. Last week, T and I woke up bright and early to send the Hubs off to work and then.......click to learn what next.

Doing her bit for Charity

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I am proud of my toddler. She is no longer a toddler really, but a very mature little girl of 27 months. She even looks it, her maturity, as people always mistake her for being older than she really is. And the expressions from those eyes of hers,.......click to learn what next.

The love for my child

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

It has been 7 days since the Hubs went abroad for work and I have been alone with T. It is the longest that I've ever been alone with T. We have been painting the town red, just the two of us, and having a blastedly superb time........click to learn what next.

What is happening to my country?

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

Whilst reading the Star this evening, I started getting really worried. This is the country's leading newspaper that sits on more than half the office receptions and desks of CEO's in KL. Mainstream media. It seems....... How about joke comics? For it sure pushed my laughing buttons! Here's.......click to learn what next.

Litter Menace

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

The Hubs is away and with my new found freedom, T and I have been gallavanting and painting the town red, practically everyday since he left. Hey, when the cat is away, the mice come out to play...... With going out comes hours on the road due to.......click to learn what next.

My friend, Sam….for always.

Posted on December 7, 2006December 9, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

This year, Sam would've been 34, just like me. But she has missed out 13 years of what we were meant to share together as friends, to my detriment. I met the beautiful Indonesian Italian Samantha Barlian of a lithe 5'6" at architecture school more than 10 years.......click to learn what next.

Protected: The Sensitive New Age Man

Posted on December 6, 2006April 23, 2008 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I lunched with 2 moms today who also had daughters Ts age. Dita has been with her husband for 18 years of which 5 they were married. Yasmin has been with her husband for 10 years. Dita's husband is Malaysian Chinese while Yasmin's is French. They are.......click to learn what next.

In the middle of Tatler

Posted on December 3, 2006February 5, 2015 by Mamapumpkin

Today I found ourselves in the middle of people often seen in the Malaysian Tatler, a magazine of high society. Anyone who's a who's who will have had their face plastered on this monthly glossy provided their cash net worth is enough to have the banks begging for.......click to learn what next.

My definition of friendship

Posted on December 2, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

Whilst we are feeling melancholic about the subject, I might as well blurb out my own schpiel about it. I think I am a GREAT friend. I am loving, honest, sincere. I make no demands of friends. I am accepting and I don't impart my own ideas onto.......click to learn what next.

Protected: The roller coaster of change

Posted on December 2, 2006August 5, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

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The Month of November 2006

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

Seems like months ago that I was last here but actually it has only been weeks. Allow me to give you the low down on what's been happening at the Lee Mansion. I got shortlisted to write a coffee table book for the Government. It is an initiative.......click to learn what next.

“Can I borrow some money?”

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

Fess up. Do you get all uncomfortable and sweaty whenever that question is posed directly to your face? Like your veins suddenly expand as you are caught off guard and you switch immediately, subconsciously into defense mode? I was asked that today. My instant response without thinking was,.......click to learn what next.

A hundred facts about my sordid life

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I was born in Singapore but I am NOT a citizen of Singapore. Many people wanted to adopt me but my mother chose to keep me. My youngest memory was when I was 3 years old. I used to have a photographic memory. I was always well liked.......click to learn what next.

Hereditary genes of the masculine type

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I have always been one of those girls who were very equal in the usage of the right and left brain. I still am. At school, I would challenge the boys doing 'boy' stuff like arm wrestling. And win. I excelled in obstacle courses which got me all.......click to learn what next.